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The cron job reported ok — its message was never delivered (failure)

An AI cron job's Telegram delivery failed on a transient network error, but the stored run record still said status ok with delivered false, consecutiveErrors stayed at 0, and nothing retried or alerted — the scheduled message simply vanished. The failure was only visible by digging into the run diagnostics; anyone watching the chat or the job's status saw a healthy run.

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How it works

  1. A cron job fires on schedule with announce delivery to Telegram
  2. The agent turn completes normally
  3. The send fails on a network error
  4. The run record stores status ok, delivered false, consecutiveErrors 0
  5. The delivery queue finalises the entry after a single attempt with no retry
  6. No alert fires and the message is silently lost

Why it’s worth knowing

Every health signal said fine: the one number operators actually watch, run status, was ok on a run whose only job — delivering a message — never happened.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on github.com. See the original ↗

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